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Melatonin

Melatonin

Released: 12/15/2022

Melatonin is a rhythm game about dreams and reality merging together. It uses animations and sound cues to keep you on beat without any intimidating overlays or interfaces. Harmonize through a variety of dreamy levels containing surprising challenges, hand-drawn art, and vibrant music. Melatonin explores the relationship between the dreams we have when we’re asleep and the experiences we go through when we’re awake, through unique rhythm game levels. Hand-drawn in a colorful and detailed visual style, with music produced to flow hand-in-hand with the gameplay and visuals, you will piece together elements about the main character’s life as you dive deeper and deeper into their dreams at night. FEATURES Discover over 20 dreamy levels spread across 5 chapters, with every level introducing a new song. Unlock a Hard Mode that will truly test your rhythm. Make the rhythm game level of your dreams with an easy to use Level Editor. Use Practice Mode to guide you through each level. Try out plenty of assist features if you’re feeling lost.

Melatonin is a rhythm game about dreams and reality merging together. It uses animations and sound cues to keep you on beat without any intimidating overlays or interfaces. Harmonize through a variety of dreamy levels containing surprising challenges, hand-drawn art, and vibrant music. Melatonin explores the relationship between the dreams we have when we’re asleep and the experiences we go through when we’re awake, through unique rhythm game levels. Hand-drawn in a colorful and detailed visual style, with music produced to flow hand-in-hand with the gameplay and visuals, you will piece together elements about the main character’s life as you dive deeper and deeper into their dreams at night. FEATURES Discover over 20 dreamy levels spread across 5 chapters, with every level introducing a new song. Unlock a Hard Mode that will truly test your rhythm. Make the rhythm game level of your dreams with an easy to use Level Editor. Use Practice Mode to guide you through each level. Try out plenty of assist features if you’re feeling lost.

Melatonin is a rhythm game about dreams and reality merging together. It uses animations and sound cues to keep you on beat without any intimidating overlays or interfaces. Harmonize through a variety of dreamy levels containing surprising challenges, hand-drawn art, and vibrant music. Melatonin explores the relationship between the dreams we have when we’re asleep and the experiences we go through when we’re awake, through unique rhythm game levels. Hand-drawn in a colorful and detailed visual style, with music produced to flow hand-in-hand with the gameplay and visuals, you will piece together elements about the main character’s life as you dive deeper and deeper into their dreams at night. FEATURES Discover over 20 dreamy levels spread across 5 chapters, with every level introducing a new song. Unlock a Hard Mode that will truly test your rhythm. Make the rhythm game level of your dreams with an easy to use Level Editor. Use Practice Mode to guide you through each level. Try out plenty of assist features if you’re feeling lost.

Critics
79
Steam
94
Metacritic
85

Score Breakdown

79.3

Critic Average

23 reviews

94

Steam User Score

8,021 reviews

85

Metacritic User Score

27 reviews

Disparity Breakdown

Steam Disparity
-15.1
Metacritic Disparity
-5.7
Combined Disparity
-10.4

Average of both sources

Review Timing

8 early (35%)11 launch window (48%)4 late (17%)